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This is just crazy-wrong. (updated)

60 Minutes feature tonight: “Forbidden Love.” As the promo reads, “A brother and sister – a father and daughter. Now they’re about to reveal their deepest secret, one they’ve always tried to hide.”

Bloody incest on free-to-air TV during the 7:30-8:30 timeslot, not condemned for the sick, sick thing it is but almost shown as just another “lifestyle choice.”

“Aw, c’mon. Don’t go all moral and righteous on them.” In this age of do-it-yourself, make-it-up-as-you-go-along morality, that’s the message I felt was being pushed. I don’t know how many times phrases like, “People shouldn’t be judgmental, we’re consenting adults and we’re not hurting anyone” came out.

Money quote from the father/grandfather: “I knew it was illegal, of course I knew it was illegal but you know, so what.“ Then he gives a creepy chuckle.

And yes, the Australian couple have a biological child together, as well as two children from previous partner/s, dutifully smiling for the camera and telling Australia that there is nothing wrong with their Mom sleeping with her Dad – or is that, their Grandpa. Full names and location were given. Gee, school tomorrow should be a real blast for them.

The 60 Minutes transcript will be up here (it’s not up yet just been posted), and here is the story on it from from news.com. Read it and weep – for the poor children involved if for no other reason.

UPDATE: Actually, there was something 60 Minutes wasn’t telling us in their eagerness to portray this couple in the best possible light:

PETER OVERTON: …. But then they would break the greatest taboo of all – Jenny fell pregnant with their baby. 9-month-old Celeste seems blissfully happy and perfectly healthy. Despite the odds. Children born to close-relative couplings are six times more likely to die at birth, did you consider that?
JOHN DEAVES: The way I look at it, it’s just like if I was married to Jennifer and she was not my biological daughter and we had a child. It’s exactly the same thing. The child is not deformed. It had no mental difficulties. Quite normal, healthy child.

#1 You know, I’ve read arguments from paedophiles that their particular “sexual preference” should be recognised and accepted, that they’re born that way and shouldn’t be discriminated against. Maybe 60 Minutes will give them a platform to push their cause next week.

The scary thing is, her 9 and 14 year old daughters were spawned by some other man or men, so they are not growing up with their bio-father/s. Since having sex with Dad is obviously A-OK in the warped world they’re growing up in, what’s to stop them from getting busy with their estranged father/s a few years down the track?

Hell, I’m sure sick stuff like this does happen from time to time, but to see it celebrated as some sort of harmless “lifestyle choice” on a mainstream program like 60 Minutes, and to hear people who would call this absolutely sick, preemptively dismissed as some kind of intolerant nutters, is just whacked.

#7 The teens aren’t copping it anywhere nearly as bad as the little one is going to. Not only is it sick, but it’s so fucking selfish of them to not consider when they found out she was pregnant, what kind of life they’re going to be subjecting the baby to. Kids are cruel, and as soon as the kids her age find out, it’s going to follow her for the rest of her life.

The 60 Minutes story will be forgotten in a few years, but all it takes is one Google search…

Spot, from the transcript: Knowing it was wrong in so many ways John and Jenny walked away from their respective partners and set up home together in South Australia. They brought up Jenny’s two children Samantha and Alex as their own

They were both still married or at least committed in some way to other people, and she buggered off with her young children in tow.

If her first child is 14, then that girl would have been 6 or so when the mother shagged her own father.

#14 Have a look at the update. This wasn’t their first child together; just their first child that actually lived more than a few days. And they hadn’t been “estranged for 30 years”. Wonder how many other lies will come out now.

Someone’s sure to contact the bio-father/s of the other children, I suspect we’ll get yet another side of the story.